Uloga prostora u rediteljskoj poetici Živka Nikolića
The Function of Space in Živko Nikolić's Directorial Poetics

Summary/Abstract: Aesthetically unfounded speculation, which emphasizes ignorant attitudes toward space in film, was unknown to Nikolic. He managed to enrich space in his films in a specific way if it, with its integrity and visual fullness, didn't provide it. The space in his films is not a passive refractor through which rupture a variety of dramatic events, imprinting or non-imprinting, leaving or non-leaving a trace on it. It is an active participant which imprints and leaves a trail on the events in which it takes part. So, to emphasize the core values of space as an active catalyst of dramatic events, clearly define it, give it a role of diegetic artifex, to revive him, let him play, was basically Nikolic's starting premise. Guided by the thought of Jean Mitry, say that there is no absolute space nor absolute time – spreading is always limited, and the duration final. In addition, space which is always a part of something, exists only on the basis of phenomena present in it, which is, actually, an aesthetic form that fully reflects Nikolic's understanding of spatial and temporal relationships in film.

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